Ever been working along on something, and you see an ad or get an error that just boggles the mind? You look at it and just think to yourself, “what the… why did they… I… don’t… can’t… even… imagine. Ugh idiot!” Well here’s a few that have hit me lately.

This is SUPPOSED to be the Free Tier?

I know, really, NOT a big deal at all. 1 penny. But seriously, it’s supposed to be the free tier. It probably cost MORE to charge 1 penny against my credit card than to just fix the mistake. Meh, whatever, it’s rather hilarious really.

When The Hell Did This Get Updated Last??!?!?!

I got nuthin’. Seriously, this is inexcusable for a corporate environment. How many other security protocols or other things are completely in disrepair? This type of nonsense actually concerns me. (and btw, this was using Chrome, the IE message for IE 9 came up the same way)

Hosted TFS!?!? for $20 Bucks a Month?

Oh dear. It’s bad enough using TFS internally, but hosted! I can only imagine the horror! In addition, at $20 bucks you could have gigs upon gigs of private storage for a Git or Mercurial account. My take, go get an Unfuddle or Repository Hosting Account and use a seriours distributed source control system. It’s time to step away from the sourcesafe… err, I mean TFS… and use a functional, scalable, and non-hindrance prone source control system.

Hope that was entertaining. That was my PSA (Public Service Announcement) of the week. Enjoy.

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Lean, Kanban, Agile Pairing, TDD (sometimes test after) software architect and programmer. Worked with distributed (called cloud sometimes) computing services since 2007 using phat data (8 billion rows of data on an AVERAGE day, sometimes called big data) and everything from business intelligence to the nitty gritty of array structures inside file based data stores to create caching tiers for custom software needs.
Currently pushing for distributed technologies & improving software architecture, better data centers, the best software development practices and keeping everything secure in the financial industry again.
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